General Motors has released its sales figures for the January-March period and it makes for attractive reading, especially when it comes to the Cadillac brand.
In the first quarter of the year, GM sold 594,233 cars in the U. S. U. S. This represents a 1. 5% reduction from the 603,208 units sold in the first quarter of 2023 and comes despite the fact that this last quarter had two more days of sales in comparison. compared to last year. Cadillac also reported a 2. 4% decline in overall sales, but one style saw a significant expansion in demand; the all-electric Lyriq.
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In the first quarter of 2023, Cadillac sold just 968 Lyriqs in the U. S. This was a rather disappointing figure for the brand’s first all-new electric vehicle. However, this year, sales soared 499. 2 percent, with 5,800 Lyriq consumers locating new homes. As a result, the Lyriq is now Cadillac’s third best-selling model, the Escalade (9,135 units) and XT5 (6,275 units), which is a significant achievement.
Unfortunately for Cadillac, this is where the good news ends. CT4 sales fell 36. 1%, CT5 sales were sold less than 34. 2% in the first quarter, and Escalade deliveries also fell 1%. In addition, 28%. Fewer XT4s were sold in the quarter, XT5 sales fell by 13. 9% and XT6 sales also fell by 3. 3%.
However, with 5,800 games sold in the first quarter, the Lyriq is now Cadillac’s third-best distributor, after the Escalade (9,135 games) and the XT5 (6,275 games), which is a pretty impressive feat.
GMC Hummer up 83,300%
The Chevrolet and GMC brands also reported lower sales in the first quarter. At Chevrolet, deliveries fell 2. 1% to 389,763 units from 398,141 units. GMC sales declined 4. 8%, from 130,608 to 124,378. Interestingly, there’s one GMC style that has noticed a massive increase in sales: the GMC Hummer EV, in pickup truck and SUV form. In the first quarter of 2023, GMC sold 2 units, but in the last quarter it delivered 1,668, representing an increase of 83,300%. .
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Buick is the only GM logo in the U. S. The U. S. economy saw sales expand this year. It sold 44,385 games in the first quarter, a 16. 4% increase from the 38,138 sold in the first quarter of 2023. This increase can be attributed almost exclusively to the new Envista, which sold 9,662 aircraft in the first 3 months of the year.